Ezekiel 22:31

“Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them, &c.] Like a mighty torrent, carrying all before it: I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; by the sword, famine, pestilence, and captivity: their own way have I recompensed on their heads, saith the Lord; brought just punishment upon them, such as their ways and works deserved; “the vengeance of their way,” as the Targum.”

“their own way . . . recompensed upon their heads-- (Eze 9:10; Eze 11:21; Eze 16:43; Pro 1:31; Isa 3:11; Jer 6:19). The imagery is similar to that in the sixteenth chapter; but here the reference is not as there so much to the breach of the spiritual marriage covenant with God by the people's idolatries, as by their worldly spirit, and their trusting to alliances with the heathen for safety, rather than to God. Next: Ezekiel Chapter 23”

“The sixth word of judgment. The special sins of princes, priests, and people. Ezekiel 22:26 Violated - Better as in margin; to offer “violence” to the Law is to misinterpret it. It was the special office of the priests to keep up the distinction between “holy” and “unholy,” “clean” and “unclean” Leviticus 10:10. Ezekiel 22:28 See the marginal reference note. Ezekiel 22:30 The land might be said to perish for the lack of such interpositions as saved their forefathers when Moses “stood in the gap.” This was a proof of the general corruption, that there was not in the city sufficient righteousness to save it from utter destruction. Prince, prophet, priest, all fail. return to 'Top of Page'…”

“have I poured: Eze 22:21, Eze 22:22 their own: Eze 7:3, Eze 7:8, Eze 7:9, Eze 9:10, Eze 11:21, Eze 16:43; Rom 2:8, Rom 2:9 Next: Ezekiel Chapter 23”